Office Christmas Events for Employees: Fun Ideas to Boost Holiday Spirit
Office Christmas Events for Employees
Before the end of year celebrations begin, organizations are left looking for exciting ways to integrate their people during the holiday season in the form of Office Christmas Events for Employees. Christmas celebrated at the workplace does not only create happiness but also enhances staff morale, customer relations and empowers the workers for the next year's efforts. If you are interested in organizing some entertaining and efficient strategies for holiday events that will stir holiday vibes in employees’ souls, how about using the following tips for Christmas celebrations?
1. Suggest an Office Decoration Day
Start up the festive mood by having an office decoration day before the actual festive season starts. This entertaining activity allows to show creativity and transform the workplace into a cold time environment. Devide your team into small groups and give each asigned area to decorate like the entrance and exit area, office space, and the central working area. Add to the fun, try to organize ‘The Best Décor of the Area’, where employees are able to vote for their favorite area and the winners get a small reward. Apart from making the environment look more festive, this activity helps people come together and work in pairs.
2. Organise a Christmas themed potluck, if possible or have a catered luncheon.
An extended lunch or a holiday potluck or even a catered affair is an excellent way to help the workers to get to know one another while also providing a social outlet for them outside of work. Have employees volunteer to bring a dish that is a favorite of their cultural holiday celebration or better yet hire a catering group that can offer a plethora of holiday specialties while accommodating vegetarian or those with severe allergies. Christmas potlucks are a great way to make everyone feel comfortable and share new tastes and have a nice meal. As a fun approach we should suggest the employees dress up in any holiday outfit of their desire.
3. Play the Secret Santa Gift Exchange game
Traditional forms of employee Christmas events include Secret Santa gift exchanges for business organizations. This amusing activity fosters togetherness and gives team members a slightly more intimate feel when the organization celebrates the holidays. The gifts should not be very expensive hence it would be wise to agree on how much every participant would spend, and an online tool or website that enables secret Santa can also be used to avoid complications when assigning people the gifts. As an option, try a “White Elephant” or “Yankee Swap” where office staff exchange funny ‘$5 gifts’. The merriment and jokes which people experience when giving out gifts and minute surprises must make the team more united.
4. Virtual Holiday Event Options
For those teams that work from home or at least partially, you may want to organize a virtual Christmas celebration which will embrace everyone. It is not just for the employees. Many human-centric companies have sought success with Virtual events including virtual trivia, holiday-movie viewing parties, and virtual escape rooms among others. Incorporate a Virtual Secret Santa into your event and send gifts ahead of time, and make sure to open them at the same time via video conferencing. Or better yet, create a virtual holiday-themed scavenger hunt where everyone participates in the contest from the comforts of their own home. Such virtual holiday celebrations help give time for team building or proper incentive even if the team is not in the same room.
5. Ideas on How to Launch a Holiday Charity Drive or Volunteering Event
Take advantage of the festivity season and share them by arranging charity or volunteering activity. It is possible to support employees in collecting canned food, toys, or clothes necessary for the winter for donating it to the local non-profit organization. Most employees like when companies support the community; charity drives also serve as rejuvenation activities. If there is spare time on your hands, you could arrange for a day of employees to spend at a local animal shelter, food bank or any charity of their choice. This unselfish occasion brings about a positive impression in the society and the workers.
6. The Perfect Party Ideas: Have a Christmas Themed Game Day or Christmas Themed Trivia Challenge
Another customizable idea is to organise a Christmas game day or a Christmas trivia night. It is also possible to organize, for instance, holiday bingo, or the “Guess the Christmas Carol” game, or trivia wars between teams. You should provide small incentives for winners more incentive and make sure that all the different personality types are taken care by giving different styles of games. Organization games and trivia can brighten up the day of employees and make them laugh which fosters morale and makes for great stories and memories.
7. Get Ready for Cozy Hot Chocolate and Cookie Station
One idea if you are trying to have a small but meaningful celebration is to provide a hot chocolate and cookies table in a shared space. Add some fun and excitement to it by having toppings such as whipped cream, marshmallows, chocolate shavings, flavored syrups among others. They may take and eat treats during work hours while working or at some break time as this will make them have a warm feel of the holidays.
8. Organise a Holiday Themed Creative Session or Art Activity
Make your team more creative by holding a holiday-themed session that would involve sculpting or rapping. Everything from decorating ornaments and wreaths or cookie decoration, Crafting lets the employees let their hair down and unleash their creativity. If you want to make it fun and engaging, then you could invite a local artisan or you tube’s do it yourself guru. This provides the best and memorable office Christmas events for employees as they can take their crafts home with them.
Wrapping Up: How to Develop a Useful Christmas Event for the Company
When organizing Office Christmas Events for the employees, they do not have to be overwhelmed or spend a lot of money. The first one will be very crucial which is to make people feel happy and welcome at work and that they are an important part of the company. No matter whether it’s in the form of lunch or a fun game or some charity activity of their choice, the end-result of the holiday events is that the team gets a break from work routines. Perhaps introducing some of these Christmas event ideas will work and you will see your employees observing the festivities and morale booster high. Also, time spent during the holiday still brings a positive shift in the organizational culture throughout the year.
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